That’s a loaded phrase, particularly once we do not forget that Charles works instantly below CIA head and basic sketchy particular person Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. So one has to marvel, why would Luke take a job for somebody like Mr. Charles and Val?
The best chance is that Luke is doing a job. In any case, he made his debut in a 1972 comedian titled Luke Cage, Hero for Rent. Since his inception, Luke has been somebody who understands the necessity to pay the payments, and doesn’t permit his labor to be exploited. As proven in an oft-memed comedian body, not even Physician Doom may escape paying the invoice if he owed Luke Cage cash. Even in that earliest incarnation, Cage cared about justice and would by no means do something to hurt the neighborhood. However he was essentially a member of the working class, and understood that typically, you’ve received to do a job. So if Mr. Charles supplied him a job, and he thought it wasn’t unethical to take it, Luke Cage may theoretically settle for.
A extra fascinating reply entails the crew with whom Val is most related, at the very least amongst MCU followers. In 2010, Cage grew to become the brand new chief of the Thunderbolts, a crew of supervillains attempting to turn into heroes. The task got here on the request of Steve Rogers, who knew that Luke’s historical past as a person wrongfully imprisoned would give him perception and sympathy that different Avengers might lack. He served in that place for a number of years, till going onto kind an Avengers splinter group dubbed the Mighty Avengers, and ultimately rejoining along with his frequent companion Danny Rand, a.okay.a. Iron Fist.
Whereas each of these choices make sense, some may really feel uncomfortable interested by Luke Cage working for Mr. Charles for any cause. Nonetheless, the comics may present some perception there too. Within the late Nineties collection Heroes for Rent by writers Roger Stern and John Ostrander, penciled by Pasqual Ferry, Iron Fist places collectively a brand new crew and, in fact, asks his outdated pal Luke to affix. Luke declines, having determined to retire from superheroing and run the movie show he purchased with a long-time pal named David W. Griffith (sure… his identify is D. W. Griffith).
Finally, Luke does be part of the brand new Heroes for Rent. But, by the top of the collection, we be taught that he’s doing so below the command of a villain referred to as the Grasp of the World, the kind of caveman turned super-genius that you just discover form of typically in comics, consider it or not. Nonetheless, it seems that Cage was appearing as a double-agent, pretending to betray his buddies to the Grasp of the World to thwart his plan. If the MCU adapts this story, then Luke’s working with Mr. Charles could possibly be a part of a giant heroic plan, so advanced that not even his spouse understands it.
No matter Luke’s been as much as, it could possibly’t final perpetually. The pics that Mike Colter leaked present Cage again with Matt and Karen. And, if Matt’s vivid orange duds are any indication, Daredevil received’t be leaving New York Metropolis anytime quickly, so Luke have to be again within the Huge Apple. And when he does, he’ll have some explaining to do, not simply to us followers, however particularly to his spouse, Jessica.
